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Message-Id: <199705072354.BAA26107@magigimmix.xs4all.nl>
From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
To: "OpenDOS Mailing List" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: BIG suggestion for Opendos Features
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 01:49:16 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0

> > If you don't want spaces, don't use them.
> > You can use spaces on EXT2, but I've never seen anybody do it.
> > Well aside from myself then, but I quit doing it, 'cos it sucked big
time.
> 
> How do you do spaces in filenames in Linux? How does bash reacts to this?
> And the fileutils (like ls)? Anyway, quoting a filename is losing IMHO,
so
> spaces should be out... ;-)

I use spaces in Win95/NT, but not in Linux.
If you do however, you must use quotation marks.
example: "This is a spaced filename".
Linux shows this as This\is\a\spaced\filename, or something.
That doesn't make it any clearer, so spaces in filenames on EXT2 is
useless.

	Yeep

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